Co-located with the ACM e-Energy 2016, the Seventh International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy 2016)

KEYNOTE: Dr. Heiko Lehmann, Research and Innovation Director for Smart Energy at T-Labs, the central R&D unit of Deutsche Telekom.

Title: Energy Consumption and Efficiency in Complex ICT Networks

Trained a physicist, he received a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Humboldt University Berlin in 1992. In 2006, Lehmann joined T-Labs where he took over responsibility for a portfolio of innovation projects. His principal scientific and innovation interests are self-organization, complex systems and optimization in a wide variety of application areas. Lehmann was founding Thematic Area Leader for “Smart Energy” at the European Institute of Technology and Innovation in 2010.

Between now and 2017, the global footprint of data centres will grow over 40 million square feet, from 109 million to close to 150 million square feet. This growth is stimulated by IT based intelligence penetrating all areas of production and consumption by analyzing more and more data. Thus, the increasing power demand of data centres will remain unremitting, as well as the need for their holistic efficiency and sustainability.

Energy Efficiency and Performance of Cloud Data Centers – Which Role can Modeling Play?

Paul J. Kuehn (University of Stuttgart/IKR)

Virtualization and Load Balancing are main objectives to reduce the power consumption and to improve the performance of data centres (DC). The talk addresses the question how modeling and mathematical performance evaluation methods can contribute to support energy-efficient use of resources and dynamic load balancing in virtualized service environments.

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:45

Data Center Round Tables

Session Chair: Gunnar Schomaker (University of Paderborn/SICP)

The DC industry is an ongoing prospering domain. During the last decade we have seen many innovative infrastructure designs trying to handle environmental dependencies and new ICT solutions with increased volatile dynamics in demanding different resources. Eventually, the opportunities for DC architects, operators and direct customers to support “run green” and to keep all interest is still a challenge and has reached a new level of complexity. At 2-3 round tables we will discuss and try to assign existing technologies, trends, research results and future challenges within the operational stack of DCs. The aim is to reach an overview and common understanding about the impact of opportunities to reach holistic sustainability.

16:45 – 17:00

Closing of the Workshop

Gunnar Schomaker (University of Paderborn/SICP)

March 17, 2016

Paper submission deadline

April 21, 2016

Notification of acceptance

Workshop June 21th, 2016

in Waterloo (Canada)

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The 5th international workshop on energy efficient data centres (E2DC 2016) presents an agile platform for researchers in government, academia and industry. Our goal is to identify cutting-edge research and to discuss how to transfer innovations from research to DC industry. The DC is a basic block in digitization of business models or enterprise solutions to cope with the intrinsic growth of the system complexities. It is indispensable for the future energy grid, smart factories or future mobility. Innovations like increased energy-workload proportional behavior of a DC, networking and storage systems, energy-aware workload management, cyber physical devices and highly responsive DC infrastructure designs will continue to fight the gap of peak performance needs and energy demands during low utilization time.

E2DC 2016 will extend the topics by discussing the potential of specialization and collaboration of DCs. Computing disciplines like HPC, Big data analytics, distributed applications and traditional office applications are now pooled and joined by enterprise platforms. Topics are not confined to technical solutions, but extend to economic issues of the proposed solutions and interdisciplinary holistic approaches.

The workshop invites original papers of up to 6 pages that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:

The potential of special applications, data centre resources and service platforms

Standardization and eco-efficient data centre architectures

Energy awareness by applications and service architectures

Communication and network solutions

Infrastructure and architectures management

Cloud and high performance computing

Big data and large scale simulations

Data storages and reservoirs

Software defined data centres, networks and storages

Metrics and KPIs for green data centres

Smart cities or future energy grids and data centre integration

Novel green ICT business models and data centres

Emerging Markets and data centre energy procurement

Demand response strategies integrating data centres

Optimizing the use of renewable energy sources in data centres

Submission and publication of the work

E2DC is co-located with ACM e-Energy. Papers will be published in the ACM proceedings and must stick to ACM format. The workshop invites original papers of up to 6 pages that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Please submit here. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to register and present the paper at E2DC. Organizers reserve the right to exclude a paper from publication if not presented. Please contact klingert@informatik.uni-mannheim.de for more information.